· Private foundation
Danielson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $112k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $223k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHAWNIGAN USA FUND | $42,500 |
| BARNARD COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL - THE IDEA ENDOWMENT | $15,000 |
| RAINBOW RAILROAD | $15,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | $15,000 |
| LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION - CASSANDRA FUND | $15,000 |
| MYRIAD USA INC | $13,600 |
| SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL | $13,500 |
| MUSEO REINA SOFIA FOUNDATION (USA) INC | $12,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $11,400 |
| OUTRIGHT ACTION INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FOUR WINDS INC | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
54 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SUSHAWNIGAN USA FUND5× · 2021–2025 · $179k · revenue +1%
- SCSANTA CATALINA SCHOOL5× · 2021–2025 · $116k · revenue +66%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $65k · revenue +20%
Funded once
Northwestern Universityone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +4%- AHARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +26%
- TJTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUSTone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -17%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
How this is measured
49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 69 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SHAWNIGAN USA FUND ↗
- Who funds SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FOUR WINDS ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW RAILROAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEO REINA SOFIA FOUNDATION (USA) INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GULLIVER PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds WOODSIDE SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Word of Honor Fund ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF THE WOOD RIVER VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE DAWN REDWOODS CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds IMMATERIAL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SAWTOOTH BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Miami Foundation Inc · Boswell Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Otis Booth Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Orange County Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Boston Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Danielson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Danielson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
- Gulliver Preparatory School Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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